Deeper waters separating Borneo from neighboring Sulawesi prevented a land connection to that island, creating the divide between Asian and Australia-New Guinea biological regions known as Wallace's Line.

* Australia-New Guinea ( continent )

The eastern border corresponds to the light Australia-New Guinea shelf.

Later, as Australia-New Guinea drifted north, the collision of the Australian and Asian plates pushed up the islands of Wallacea, which were separated from one another by narrow straits, allowing a botanic exchange between Indomalaya and Australasia.

Asian rainforest flora, including the dipterocarps, island-hopped across Wallacea to New Guinea, and several Gondwanian plant families, including podocarps and araucarias, moved westward from Australia-New Guinea into western Malesia and Southeast Asia.

This suggests that the two species, though having common stock, evolved in isolation ( possibly during a period when Australia and New Guinea were more distantsee Australia-New Guinea ) and were only brought back into contact in relatively recent geological times.

All members of the order are endemic to the twin land masses of Australia-New Guinea and most have the characteristic bandicoot shape: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, very large upright ears, relatively long, thin legs, and a thin tail.

They are medium-small, mostly brown birds with patterning on their underparts, and all are endemic to Australia-New Guinea.

Though bowerbirds have traditionally been regarded as closely related to the birds of paradise, recent molecular studies suggest that while both families are part of the great corvid radiation that took place in or near Australia-New Guinea, the bowerbirds are more distant from the birds of paradise than was once thought.

All four families originated with the great corvid radiation of the Australia-New Guinea region.

The Pomatostomidae ( Australo-Papuan or Australasian babblers, also known as pseudo-babblers ) are small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea.

* Australo-Papuan babbler, passerine birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea

The Torres Strait itself was formerly a land bridge which connected the present-day Australian continent with New Guinea ( in a single landmass called Sahul or Australia-New Guinea ).

The Islands lie on the Australia-New Guinea continental shelf, and were connected to Australia and New Guinea by land when sea levels were lower during the ice ages.

Podocarpus and the Podocarpaceae were endemic to the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which broke up into Africa, South America, India, Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, and New Caledonia between 105 and 45 million years ago.

The great nineteenth-century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace explored what is now Indonesia, drawing attention to fundamental biological differences between the Australia-New Guinea region and Southeast Asia.

Accordingly, the Sapayoa would be the last surviving New World species of a lineage that evolved in Australia-New Guinea when Gondwana was in the process of splitting apart.

All four members of the order are very large flightless birds native to Australia-New Guinea.

The sharing of animal and plant species between Australia-New Guinea and nearby Indonesian islands is another consequence of the early land bridges, which closed when sea levels rose with the end of the last glacial period.

The neighbourhood has a thriving cultural scene, with the Tranzac ( Toronto Australia-New Zealand ) Club, the Bathurst Street Theatre, the Bloor Cinema ( repertory cinema ), the Jewish Community Centre, and, until recently, the now closed Poor Alex Theatre at Bloor and Brunswick.

In Asia and Australia-New Zealand, the regional group called the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics ( APAMI ) was established in 1994 and now consists of more than 15 member regions in the Asia Pacific Region.

Three British colonies in Australia-New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land ( Tasmania ) and Western Australia-provide probably the best examples of the state use of convict labour.

The " Western world " taken as consisting of Europe, North America and Australia-New Zealand remains predominantly Christian: 78. 5 % in the USA ( 2002 ), 77 % in Canada ( 2001 ), close to 80 % in Europe ( includes Eastern Orthodoxy in Eastern Europe, not properly part of " Western religion ", 32. 4 % of Europeans are Roman Catholic, 16. 2 % are Protestant ) and 64 % in Australia ( 2006 ).

The film was delayed for a year, until it became the first Australia-New Zealand co-production, partially funded by the Australian Film Commission.

More recently, in the 18th century, the sweet potato was taken to New Guinea, having been introduced to the Moluccas from South America by Portuguese traders, representing the locally dominant colonial power.

It originated from the Australian Army land forces of the territory of Papua New Guinea before independence, coming into being in January 1973 and having its antecedents in the Pacific Islands Regiment.

It is a joint force tasked with defending Papua New Guinea and its territories against external attack, as well as having secondary functions including national-building and internal security tasks.

The PNGDF originated from the Australian Army land forces of the Territory of Papua New Guinea before independence, coming into being in January 1973 and having its antecedents in the Pacific Islands Regiment.

It is a joint force tasked with defending Papua New Guinea and its territories against external attack, as well as having secondary functions including national-building and internal security tasks.

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

III, 822 ) points to Guinea having been a corrupt form of Jenne year old city in central Mali on Niger river, less famous than Ghana but nevertheless for many centuries famed in the Maghrib as a great market and a seat of learning.

With this addition Brazil has now overpassed New Guinea as the country having the largest number of uncontacted peoples.

Guinea pigs tend to be fickle eaters when it comes to fresh fruits and vegetables, having learned early in life what is and is not appropriate to consume, and their habits are difficult to change after maturity.

Three years later, his father having been discharged from service because of a navy reorganisation, they sailed together on their merchantman to Guinea, when they were attacked by seven ships of the English pirate Peter Easton.

The British Third Guinea coin is unique among the British gold coinage in having been produced exclusively in the reign of one monarch, in this case King George III.

In November 2007 community leaders held emergency talks with Australian immigration officials with a view to having illegal residents returned to Papua New Guinea.

It was involved in conflicts in Papua New Guinea in 1997 ( having a contract with the government under the then Prime Minister Julius Chan ) causing the Sandline affair, in 1998 in Sierra Leone ( having a contract with ousted President Kabbah ) and in Liberia in 2003 ( in a rebel attempt to evict the then-president Charles Taylor near the end of the civil war ).

He believed that it was naïve to expect to find a single Papuan or Australian language family when New Guinea and Australia had been a single landmass for most of their human history, having been separated by the Torres Strait only 8000 years ago, and that a deep reconstruction would likely include languages from both.

These small islands have been designated the Biak – Numfoor rain forests as having the most highly endemic avifauna of any single area in the New Guinea region.

Nothofagus is a plant genus that illustrates Gondwanan distribution, having originated on the supercontinent and persisting in current day Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Chile.

In 1990, after having signed an agreement in Papua New Guinea for the use of Ka-32 helicopters, Vladivostok Air entered the international arena.

Islands in the vicinity, with native populations having Malay or mixed Malay ancestry, which are not considered part of the Malay Archipelago include New Guinea and the Marianas Islands.

They call for the release of all refugees currently held in detention, the closure of all immigration detention facilities and contrast Australia's border control laws with accusations of the Australian military and federal police of having invaded the national borders of countries such as the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó ( born 1961 ) is a former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea having served from June 14, 2004 to August 14, 2006.

Pirahã is perhaps second only to Rotokas in New Guinea for the distinction of having the fewest phonemes of any of the world's languages.